Provides the latest RSS feeds for US Editorials. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Baton Rouge Post.com http://www.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/10/id/09c0947bd4eaa867/ en-us Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:55:09 -0500 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:55:09 -0500 30 In a big win for gay rights and common decency, a federal appeals court has pronounced California's Proposition 8 unconstitutional, arguing that there's no "legitimate reason for the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340286/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:57:39 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340286/ The Lake Vostok drilling site in 2001. Outer space is not the only frontier. There is also inner space, pockets of unexplored regions within our own Earth. Granted, they are becoming very ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340289/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:48:48 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340289/ ("We Are All Khaled Said"). Ghonim identified himself only as "administrator" on the Kullena Khaled Said page, and he used a proxy program called Tor that constantly changed his ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340290/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:48:42 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340290/ The Arab Spring's message of freedom through nonviolence has isolated Iran and Syria, helped elevate moderate Islamists, and pushed radical groups to weigh ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340281/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:53:25 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340281/ Barack Obama is proving to be one of the most puzzling presidents. He bravely took out Osama bin Laden but hasn't had the courage to tackle the deficit. And now he's picked a fight with ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340282/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:53:21 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340282/ It seems like America's political parties have never been more polarized. But when it comes to state-regulated gambling, they're often playing the same hand. Unfortunately, it's a ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340283/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:53:17 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340283/ My global collection of towel cards tells guests how to be green (and save the hotel money) in a dozen instructive, chic, bossy, relieving, euphemistic, paranoid, minimalistic, and earnest ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340284/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:53:13 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340284/ To see the December protests in Russia as primarily a political wave is to miss a more fundamental leaven at work in Russian society: a moral awakening akin to the American civil rights movement. An ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340285/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:53:08 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340285/ Trenton, N.J. o Just three months before the world's second-best-selling drug gets U.S. generic competition, a generic company has paid nearly $445 million to finally end a decade-long, ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340291/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:26:08 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340291/ U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York rejected arguments by John Campos, the former vice chairman of Sun First Bank in St. George, and Chad Elise that the law under which they were charged ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340292/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:54 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340292/ A woman holds up a "Aero Shot" caffeine device in Boston, Tuesday Feb. 7, 2012. The lipstick-sized product went on the market late last month in Massachusetts and New York, and is also ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340293/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:47 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340293/ (Al Hartmann | The Salt Lake Tribune) The store will feature trained chefs such as Adalberto Diaz, who will teach cooking classes. The store also has obtained a limited liquor license to teach ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340294/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:40 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340294/ A new passenger screening program to make check-in more convenient for eligible Delta Air Lines passengers flying out of Salt Lake City International Airport will start next week, the Transportation ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340295/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:33 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340295/ Product o Child Bicycle Trailers and Conversion Kits, sold by Thule Child Transport Systems Ltd. at specialty bicycle stores nationwide and on various websites from December 2005 through August 2010 ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340296/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:27 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340296/ Hide photos'); }, function() { hiddenElements.hide(600); $(this).html(showCaption); } ) ); } }); ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340297/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:21 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340297/ Merit Medical Systems Inc., a South Jordan-based company that makes and markets disposable medical devices, said it has received a warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration over ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340298/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:14 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340298/ Amazon.com Inc. entered an agreement with Viacom Inc., the owner of the Nickelodeon and MTV cable networks, expanding its online video library to 15,000. Amazon Prime members, which get free ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340299/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:07 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340299/ Usana Health Sciences Inc. is reporting sales during the fourth quarter of its 2011 fiscal year increased 6.1 percent to $145.9 million, compared with $137.5 million in the same period of the prior ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340300/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:25:00 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340300/ The Treasury Department said Wednesday that the U.S. government has signed a joint agreement with France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom to intensify their efforts to fight ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340301/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:24:53 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340301/ New York o Stocks staged an afternoon-long rally and closed higher Wednesday as Greece appeared to close in on the cost-cutting deal it needs to keep from defaulting on its national ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340302/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:24:43 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340302/ Fracking opponents last month demonstrated during the Winter X Games in Aspen. (Doug Pensinger/Getty Images) We've been fairly insistent that regulation of hydraulic fracturing is and should ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340287/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:04:08 -0500 Denver Post http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340287/ Pamela Anderson makes an appearance on behalf of PETA in front of the Department of Health in Washington, DC. in 2008 to protest animal testing techniques. (Melissa Golden, Getty Images) When it ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340288/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:03:59 -0500 Denver Post http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340288/ Anne Arundel County . That would make perfect sense if English weren't already, for all practical purposes, the county's official language. When was the last time you heard someone ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340303/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:54:17 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203340303/ He was old, but not ancient, the man next to us at the delicatessen. It was 1973. My then girlfriend (now wife) and I had ordered dinner and this old guy, sitting by himself, seemed lonely, so we ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330753/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:02:16 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330753/ Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks to supporters as his son, John and wife, Karen look on Feb. 7, 2012 in St. Charles, Missouri. Santorum defeated his challengers in Missouri, ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330752/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:02:14 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330752/ Getty Images Republican presidential hopeful and former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum speaks to supporters, flanked by his daughter, Elizabeth (left), and wife, ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330754/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:02:11 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330754/ , is one of them. Broad started doing yoga as a freshman in college in 1970 and has been practicing ever since. "I can't imagine doing [my] job without it," he ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330755/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:02:07 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330755/ Energy costs for U.S. households will be almost double this year from 2001 although Utah residents haven't seen nearly the cost increases over the past decade as many of those living in the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330757/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:39 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330757/ Besides fashionable clothes and shoes, the Nordstrom store in the soon-to-open City Creek Center also will feature a contemporary diner called Sixth and ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330756/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:31 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330756/ New York o U.S. stock futures advanced Wednesday on hope that a long-awaited deal to allow Greece to claim its second bailout was near despite another delay in discussions between the country's ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330758/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:24 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330758/ (AP Photo/Richard Drew) A 10 percent surge may seem like a lot, but it's really not. The Dow has gained almost 15 percent since Nov. 25, just 10 weeks ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330759/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:17 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330759/ Washington o Arizona, Michigan and Florida, three of the states hit hardest by the housing crisis, will join a nationwide settlement over foreclosure abuses, officials with direct knowledge say. ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330760/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:10 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330760/ Walmart Stores Inc. said it's reducing the fat, sugar and sodium in some of its private-label foods and will more aggressively market other healthy grocery items starting in ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330761/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:52:02 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330761/ The company logo is displayed at Yahoo headquarters in Sunnyvale, Calif., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012. Yahoo Inc., confirmed Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, it has picked PayPal chief Scott Thompson as its ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330765/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:56 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330765/ Republic Airways Holdings Inc. has heard from potential buyers for Frontier Airlines and is close to naming an adviser on whether the unit will be sold or spun off to shareholders, Chief Executive ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330764/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:42 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330764/ Egypt's generals are playing a dangerous game. Facing angry protests and a sinking economy since the ouster of autocratic Hosni Mubarak a year ago, the army rulers have found scapegoats. The ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330749/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:39 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330749/ Wal-Mart Stores Inc. plans to help its customers figure that out by adding a new green icon that reads "Great for You" to packaging of some of its house-brand ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330763/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:33 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330763/ Monica Chacon and girlfriend Breana Hansen celebrate outside of City Hall, Tuesday February 7, 2012, after the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the voter approved Proposition 8 measure ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330748/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:31 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330748/ The Holladay-based Jakob Marketing Partners has been named among the Best and Brightest Companies To Work for by the National Association for Business ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330762/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:26 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330762/ Thank you for your editorial regarding Bevan Dufty ("A new homeless czar for San Francisco," Feb. 4). You were correct in pointing out the feeling of futility that has arisen from the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330750/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:51:22 -0500 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330750/ Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign rally in Loveland on Tuesday. Romney lost Colorado's GOP caucuses to former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum. (Emmanuel Dunand, ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330747/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:36:02 -0500 Denver Post http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203330747/ Delaware's Elena Delle Donne, seen here during a game against Princeton, made headlines when she turned her back on the University of ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324051/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:03:47 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324051/ Curried goat, one of the national dishes of Jamaica, melds piquant curry with the slightly earthy taste of goat that has been marinated and cooked long enough to be meltingly ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324052/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:03:45 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324052/ I'd like to address some of the points mentioned in the opinion editorial published on Wednesday and titled "Where there's no smoke ". First the Daily Herald mentioned ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324064/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:49:53 -0500 Daily Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324064/ In trying to recast Utah immigration law in his own image, Rep. Chris Herrod of Provo has cooked up an incomprehensible hash -- HB 300 -- that is nothing if not indefensible. Herrod and ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324063/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:49:49 -0500 Daily Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324063/ This editorial appeared in the Los Angeles Times on Sunday, Jan. 29: The Supreme Court has long struggled with the question of whether the First Amendment prohibits the display of religious ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324065/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:49:46 -0500 Daily Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324065/ Denying the impact of taxes on the economy should be a lot harder for lawmakers, now that the Congressional Budget Office has spelled it out in the most precise terms.The nonpartisan CBO took a look ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324066/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:40:46 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324066/ A few weeks ago, a 22-year-old man named Jefferson Bethke produced a video called "Why I Hate Religion, but Love Jesus." The video shows Bethke standing in a courtyard rhyming about the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324067/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:40:41 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324067/ Already this year, state lawmakers have opened brutal new fronts in the war on workers. And America's workers are fighting back as never before.In Michigan, anti-worker bills aimed at weakening ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324070/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:40:35 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324070/ Smog and congested freeways in Metro Los Angeles and other areas of California have led its state government to issue draconian emissions rules. (Associated ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324071/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:40:30 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324071/ It's unusual when a reporter sympathetic to a politician writes a story that makes his subject look bad. But Ryan Lizza of the New Yorker has now done this twice.The first time was in an ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324072/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:40:24 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324072/ Overburdened seniors Who is going to protect seniors from our governor? He wants to make sure seniors and retirees have absolutely no money left for anything; taxing our pensions, raising gas taxes, ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324069/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:40:19 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324069/ Mark Perry's Jan. 19 commentary, "Unplug electric car subsidies," misses the mark.First, electric car sales in 2011 were not "lackluster." In their first year of mass ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324068/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:40:12 -0500 The Detroit News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324068/ W ow, hope all you taxpayers liked that Clint Eastwood Super Bowl ad. It won rave reviews from all manner of ad critics and from the public that liked its "Halftime in America" theme, its ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324053/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:50:11 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324053/ T his wasn’t the way it was supposed to turn out. In the warm glow of the Arab Spring, democracy was in the air and spirits were high on the streets of Cairo. Today rioters are protesting ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324054/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:50:09 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324054/ Isn’t this what the United Nations is about? The whole thing stinks from the top down. The Security Council isn’t a democratic entity; it’s based on brute force. Russia and China ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324055/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:50:06 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324055/ "So why don’t you run?" I get that question quite a bit, often from Herald readers annoyed with some criticism of mine regarding Beacon Hill and our bloated, bone-headed hacks. My ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324058/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:50:03 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324058/ T he story about my appearance with Elizabeth Warren in New Bedford shouldn’t leave anyone with the impression that I have anything other than the highest enthusiasm for her Senate candidacy ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324057/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:50:01 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324057/ R etired Judge Gordon Martin Jr. claims that laws insisting that voters show positive ID when voting is discriminatory ("Democracy under attack in voter suppression scheme," Feb. 5). But ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324056/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:49:59 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324056/ P assenger rail moves millions of people and provides untold jobs, and I would never want to see any of that reduced ("Menino critical of cuts, fare hikes on T," Jan. 31). All of this ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324059/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:49:57 -0500 Boston Herald http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324059/ Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta is refreshingly frank, sometimes stunningly so. He outdid himself on a trip to Europe last week, telling a Washington Post columnist that he's worried Israel ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316361/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:12:03 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316361/ It's no surprise that the state's first judicial discharge of a civilly committed sex offender would prompt questions about the decisionmaking behind the man's upcoming release. But ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316363/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:11:57 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316363/ A majority of U.S. Catholics support President Obama's decision to require religious institutions to include birth control in health insurance plans, according to two new ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316362/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:11:51 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316362/ January's increase in hiring is good news, but it masks a bigger and more disturbing story -- the continuing downward mobility of the American middle class. Most of the new jobs being created ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316364/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:11:47 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316364/ To Gingrich, an enemy; to others, an inspiration ," Jan. 31), as a "community organizer" representing "the best American traditions of protest" is like describing Benito ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316365/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:11:42 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316365/ American comedy duo Jerry Lewis (left) and Dean Martin (right) with the English playwright and actor Noel Coward at an unknown location in 1953. Lewis and Martin were famous for their cabaret acts ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316367/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:03:42 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316367/ February 7, 2012 Robert Siegel and Audie Cornish read emails from listeners responding to a story about a group that's trying to reduce the amount of cheese Americans ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316368/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:03:39 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316368/ Gray Column, 1975 - 1976, by De Wain Valentine The intersection of art and science gets a lot of ink these days, for good reason. Art can help us relate to and understand science. In a culture ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316369/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:03:35 -0500 NPR http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316369/ The president has allowed spending to explode on his watch, from a historical average of about 19% of GDP up to 25% of GDP. While no other president had ever run a $1 trillion deficit, he will run ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324060/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:24:31 -0500 USA Today http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324060/ Editor, The Times: I think that teens need to have freedom over their technology use [';The tussle over teens’ tech time,'; Business, Jan. 28]. Encouraging parents to closely ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316345/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:21 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316345/ Welcome to The Seattle Times' online letters to the editor, a sampling of readers' opinions. Join the conversation by commenting on these letters or send your own letter of up to 200 ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316347/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:16 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316347/ I am appalled and sickened by these events and by the extreme negligence, once again, both by the Department of Social Health and Services and court systems in the state of Washington! ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316348/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:12 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316348/ The stark numbers in ';Even unused tax breaks tough for legislators to plug'; [NWSunday, Feb. 5] boggled my mind — 452 unprotected exemptions to the tune of $24 billion? I’m ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316349/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:09 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316349/ The concentration of wealth into an ever smaller portion of the population ensures fewer of the citizens care enough to defend, fight for or support that society [';The lives of ordinary ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316350/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:07 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316350/ The very fact that the Army has on its medical evaluation staff, officers, doctors who are in decision-making positions that affect the retirement of soldiers — while at the same time holding ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316346/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:21:00 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316346/ The only sure beneficiaries of ';Washington Votings Rights Act'; are lawyers [';Ensuring voting rights,'; Opinion, Feb. 2]. The Seattle Times got it wrong in the editorial ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316351/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:20:57 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316351/ Cutting the federal budget deficit should not mean cutting money for medical research that has countered tuberculosis, HIV, heart disease, cancer and other conditions that diminish lives, says the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316352/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:20:54 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316352/ Every once in a while, the Obama administration will promulgate a policy that is truly demoralizing. A willingness to end the District of Columbia school-voucher program was one such case. The ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316353/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:20:49 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316353/ column encourages people of color to engage in the education reform debate. While I use charter schools as an example, reform-inspired changes to federal, state and local education laws go beyond ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316354/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:20:47 -0500 The Seattle Times http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316354/ Add in a Congress that blocks every attempt at compromise and an election year, and there's every reason to believe that when the president presents his annual budget next week, he will once again ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324061/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:20:15 -0500 USA Today http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203324061/ Accepting a 20 percent wage cut is difficult when Greeks don't agree on responsibility for their debt crisis. Shared sacrifice would be easier if they owned up to their ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316355/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:14:08 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316355/ Russia under Vladimir Putin sees only a civil war in Syria, justifying its threat to veto any US Security Council action against Assad. But Syria is in a revolution, a shifting of ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316356/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:14:05 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316356/ Italy may find Prime Minister Mario Monti's dose of discipline hard to swallow, but his depoliticized democracy is the only form of government that can move Italy forward. Monti's ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316357/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:14:01 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316357/ Negative campaigning is actually an American tradition. In fact, attack campaigning has been around since the beginning without derailing the electoral process. Mudslinging can hardly be called a ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316358/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:13:56 -0500 Christian Science Monitor http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316358/ Be happy. That's an order. In light of the recent good economic news, we all have an obligation to be upbeat, because ongoing economic health is partly a self-fulfilling prophecy. If we ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316359/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:37:27 -0500 Daily News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316359/ A federal appeals court's ruling Tuesday in favor of gay marriage was not the last word on the issue, but it was a laudable step toward guaranteeing full legal status for same-sex couples. ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316360/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:37:23 -0500 Daily News http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316360/ Our view: A federal appeals' court's ruling affirms the right of same-sex couples to marry in California, but its importance in Maryland is merely ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316371/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:30:20 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316371/ Stray Camel Way. Sealed Message Road. Misty Rise. Fragile Sail Way.All of these are actual street names in an actual Maryland county. Can you name it? Hint: There's plenty more where those came ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316372/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:30:11 -0500 Baltimore Sun http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316372/ NFL fans were treated to a super Super Bowl on Sunday, especially from the view of New York Giants fans such as myself. That said, we learned lessons on two controversial plays: You should not ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203315261/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:53:28 -0500 USA Today http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203315261/ I considered the evidence of species such as marsh rabbits and foxes disappearing. Then I thought, "Wait a minute, what exotic species has caused the most destruction to this beautiful country?" ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203315756/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:46:26 -0500 USA Today http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203315756/ The beating captured on a camcorder in 1991 was seen on at least 240 TV stations around the world, impressive for pre-digital days, and served notice on law enforcement officers that cameras could ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203315915/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:32:44 -0500 USA Today http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203315915/ Despite student petitions, digital options and congressional intervention, the tab for textbooks keeps growing in what is now an $8 billion industry. Prices are so high that some college students, ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316370/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:06:42 -0500 USA Today http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203316370/ Pop quiz! Identify these political heavy hitters: Edward Conrad, Robert Mercer, John Paulson, Bob Perry, Julian Robertson, Paul Singer, Sheldon Adelson. Give up? They're very rich people who ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308029/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:16:01 -0500 Star Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308029/ Aloha Makahiki Hou mai e na makamaka heluhelu mai ka hikina a ka la i Makanoni a i kona welo 'ana aku i ka mole 'olu o Lehua. Pehea, he mau hoa puni pa'ani kinipopo hina'i paha ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308040/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:15:25 -0500 Star Advertiser http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308040/ Starting in the 1980s, the loss of farmland to housing tracts, strip malls and developments became a worry. Since then, the loss of valuable, productive acreage has only escalated, impacting the ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308030/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:48 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308030/ The new center is at 7984 S. 1300 East, the former site of Karen Pullman's Pro Shop and Bowling Center, which Seven Peaks acquired in ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308031/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:40 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308031/ In this Feb. 3, 2012 photo, trader Anthony Riccio, left, works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks were trading lower on Tuesday, Feb. 7,2012, as talks dragged on in Greece to agree ... http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308032/ Tue, 07 Feb 2012 13:55:30 -0500 Salt Lake Tribune http://story.batonrougepost.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/09c0947bd4eaa867/id/203308032/